E-bulletin Archive

90 logging coupes in legal case still on hold.
FFGA, landclearing laws and the Biodiversity Strategy to be reviewed.
Logging in East Gippsland costing us $5.5 million a year.
Throwing native forests into electricity furnaces given the nod (and money).
Those who documented illegal rainforest logging prosecuted (the same people were shortlisted for a UN enviro award).
Green certification for logging abandoned by VicForests.
Burning the bush fails the effectiveness test.

27th May 2015 Owls in waiting Forests in the crosshairs

Preparing to go to court for the Owls
Bill tabled to burn forests as ‘renewable energy’.

Woodchipping to go ballistic – 16 May 2015

Burning forests as ‘renewable energy’ is madness. Please help!

News in a Nutshell – 28^th April 2015

VicForests busted illegally logging rainforests – again
Will Abbott define forest powered electricity as renewable? Please help NOW.
Bushfire mitigation solution – log more forests – $1.5M
Aussie birds more advanced
Frackman the movie
Stephen Mayne – planet-friendly investment choices
No burning forests to power your TV
‘Love’ us on facebook!
Three petitions for the forests

News in a Nutshell 27^th March 2015

Owls Legal Case
Meeting the minister
Kuark Forest petition
Autumn burns
Lyrebirds – forests gardeners
Rare East Gippy koala found
VicForests begs Nippon
World woodchipping
Gas rise to hurt mill
$300M given to victims of Black Saturday Murrundindi fire
Forest carbon worth more in Emissions reduction scheme
Dog baiting and mammal decline in eucalyptus forests
Forests Forever Easter Camp

News in a Nutshell – 27^th February 2015

Legal News
- Battling for Owls
- Battling for the Mallee Birds
Fires and Burning
- Review of 5% burn target
- The damage by Gammage – exposed
Forests Forever Easter Ecology Camp 2015

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[collapse collapsed]Xmas Forest Update – 19^th December 2014

Eden chipmill truck count no log trucks coming from Victoria.
VicForests has agreed to extend their moratorium on not logging 81 areas of potential critical owl habitat
Christmas Sale in the EEG online shop
Auction of a Rare Bags bag

Forest News #48 – 7^th November 2014

Paid pyromania?
East Gippy owls in the international spotlight
Will the price of gas kill off the Maryvale pulp mill?
Stockman Mine – pollie blunders
The preferential voting system explained
A 20 year licence in East Gippsland – for biomass burning?
Montana Mill – FSC
WA logging gains shonky eco-label
Abbott’s Climate Plan encourages forest furnaces
Redgum Parks now WON’T be logged
Leaf litter – it’s not scary
New East Gippsland Orchid book
Pocket guide to foothill plants in East Gippsland

Suing for Owls – 23^rd September 2014

Environment East Gippsland is suing the State government for the Owls

Forest Update #47 – 15^th August 2014

VicForests celebrated 10 years of looting, lying, pillaging and bludging.
VicForests in decline but Vic still the top Ozzie logging state
Iron-ore mine denied use of chipmill port – a good sign!
60ha glasshouses – to use ‘waste’ wood – from where?
Logging increases forests flammability – new research.
Blitz burn regime of 5% questioned by Neil Comrie.
The wildlife cost of DEPI burns
Goongerah-Deddick fire fighting failures – report.
CSIRO dumping 33 logging scientists
SA blue gum is 2,000 years old
Maremma dogs as active conservationists for Bandicoots!
Kick the Yellow pages
Pizza fundraiser at famous East Gippsland low energy house and gardens
Change your power supplier
Buy a plant ID booklet – for you and friends
Help Wanted

Forest Update #46 – 26^th June 2014

VicForests fails to gain board position
International spotlight on Abbott’s env atrocities
Move to greener electricity and save forests
Legal news
Govt arsonists – inquiry needed
Judicial enquiry essential!
Most fires are started by humans
DEPI leaked report
ABBOTT to BURN forests to keep us safe
‘Renewable energy’ – the new woodchip industry?
HRL backs off biomass
Mother nature worth $145 trillion to us
Feral cat eradication – Greg Hunt
Antechinus – our wee marsupial ‘mice’ – active now!
Squandered environment funds while wildlife goes extinct
Endangered Quoll recovery plan – 12 yrs bilateral dithering
Approval of deadly 1080 poison dumped from the air
Cockroaches – they turn leaf litter into soil!
Grey-headed Flying Foxes
Auditor General finally investigates VicForests
State budget – cut, slash, burn and pillage
The Age attacks VicForests
Approval for cattle grazing in Alpine National Park.
Killing the Lakes with salt – for the offshore oil and gas industry.
Tree Hugging Scientifically Proven to Improve Your Health
World Heritage Cttee rejects Abbott’s claim.
NOWA NOWA – the new Pilbara of the South?
VicForests put EG tenders on long term hold
Donate and/or Join EEG
Plant ID pocket guide
Boycott Greenhouse tomatoes

Forest Update #45 – 13^th May 2014

The end of the woodchipping era is near.

Forest Update #44 – 10^th April 2014

Minister Walsh apologises to EEG.
Protesters get good behavior bonds.
Whales today – forests tomorrow?
Herald-Sun breakthrough!
New research shows logging regrowth increases fire intensity.
Overview of the Goongerah fires.
Coastal incineration plan.
Also see new research on fire below
Why was our summer so hot and dry?
Old trees store more carbon.
State of the Environment Report for Victoria – not good
How forests carry out their own fire suppression management.
The many talents of fungi – including as essential forest composters.
Dingo poisoning should be stopped to protect native mammals.
Forest protesters get off lightly
Protester laws toughened by Napthine
Court appeal proves that Victoria’s laws don’t protect endangered wildlife.
State logging code rewritten to wipe out accountability (and wildlife)
Feds plan to rewrite conservation laws to allow Fed env minister to ignore environmental advice.
Environmental boycott campaigns could be made illegal.
Never fear – EEG is still working on two more legal cases which we have been gathering evidence for. We look forward to announcing them when the papers are served.

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Forest Update #43 – 1^st August 2013

One stop chop
Trees as carbon credit generators
Log trucks cut by half
News on the biggest threat to forests – BIOMASS
Hopeful news on biomass
Rudds new trading scheme – wildlife to suffer
Clean Energy Council hijacked.
Incidentally
Take Action
Aust-Indonesia carbon project abandoned
Plantations burnt
Koalas shredded
Quit Coal rally
AGM

Forest Update #42 – 8^th July 2013

Court date set
Rudd talks with Business Council on environment laws
Stable Population Party
Logging and CO2
170,000 ha of Tassie forests as World Heritage
Napthine gives private developers our National Parks
Napthine passes the free-reign logging law BUT
VicForests as the Black Knight
Boral woodchips bite the dust
VicForests operates despite being insolvent
Facebook’s dirty tricks
East Gippy giant in the Guardian
‘green label’ AFS envelopes a con
Boycott Arnotts

Forest Update #41 – 2^nd June(PDF)

We’re suing the government again!
Eden woodchippers post a $2.6M loss
VicForests back in Court –appeal on Leadbeaters Possum
Greens candidate for Gippsland
Add your name to harangue state pollies on logging law changes
World Env Day – Wednesday in Melbourne! Come along
Forests as electricity – cyber letter to power retailers.
Tassie’s Peace/Fleece Deal – are you confused?
Govt out-burns bushfires.
$7M more to help destroy trees
45 years of overkill logging – govt slow to respond

Forest Update #40 – 17^th March 2013

Forests Forever Ecology Camp
EEG’s mobile Solar Powered trailer for sale
The green seminars that come to you
Half-baked plan on environmental powers falls over
EEG forced VicForests to pull out of National Rainforest Sites.
EEG forced DSE to unlock gated logging areas.
Biomass plans for Eden chipmill – withdrawn.
Toilet sign tickles the public.
New E Gipp plant ID booklet
EEG FOIs legal costs to Victorians on grazing ban appeal.
Auditor General report – DSE and DPI are ‘ineffective’.
Fed. government investigates State government for breach of law.
Logging is not sustainable – Professor Lindenmayer
New research – forests used to bring rain inland.
Global decline of big old trees
Logging – a waste of forests.
Fire fighters demand action on climate change
Coal emissions = 50 times that of bushfires.
The Harrietville fire
Fanning the flames of hysteria over national parks
Recent handouts to logging.
Logging towns get new kids footy jerseys but no dividends to us
Logging looks to welfare bailouts to ward off undertakers
Mt Jersey Giants – not giant enough
Prospectors free to dig in Victoria’s national parks
Gina brings the Coal Seam Gas threat to Gippsland.
Mr Napthine – and Victoria’s enviro record.
Rare flying fox colony in Bairnsdale set to be cut down.
Bastion Point mega-boat ramp approved.
Drop that recycled paper campaign or you get it in the neck!
Forests of Western Victoria to be logged.
Government hikes VCAT fees 300%.
Qld govt. goes troppo
Doubts over paper giant’s rainforest pledge
GM tree plantations – a menace or a miracle?
Nano fibres and lignin technology look to world’s trees and forests.

Forest Update #39 – 12^th February 2013

News and views
Help needed
Forests Forever
Proof readers or writers needed
Stories we’d like to expand on for our members

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Forest Update #38 – 19^th October 2012

Simple things you can do.
Gunns bites the dust.
Eden’s woodchip cargo cult coming undone.
UK Greens support and Bolivia writes a law for Mother Earth.
Recycled paper plans for Maryvale pulp factory.
Wood conference struggling for attendees.
Ballieu on the nose – environment.
$80 billion to save species – a bargain.
Cutting ‘Green tape’ – Gillard bows to Business Council.
Business Council of Aust claims on cost of env laws exposed.
East Gippy Council elections.
Baillieu to weaken land clearing laws.
Deadly mercury levels in the Gippsland lakes.
Tassie – still run by loggers.
Asian countries want our wood pellets.
Eighth year – VicForests makes another loss.
VicForests wipes out more rare wildlife.
VicForests fib about ‘science’.

Forest Update #37 – 21^st August 2012

VicForests excused for illegal logging
VicForests’ ‘safety zones’ – iron curtain
VicForests’ new scientific discovery
197,000ha of fried forests
Rethink burn targets – Comrie
Burn plans – have your say by 29th Aug
Planet Ark shenanigans
New sugar cane paper
Thugs attack environmentalists
Logging road bend – $250,000
Wood waste energy plans thwarted
Logging stuffs irrigators
Councils pay $2500 to logging lobbyists
Gillard plans to weaken federal environment laws
Benambra-Baillieu mine link
Westpac finances rainforest logging
Baillieu hides bull on the cows
Duck rescuer trumped up charges dismissed
Libs proudly pro-plastic bag
Environment East Gippsland AGM 22nd Sept
Concert for Toolangi
Must see TV

Forest Update #36 – 20^th July 2012

Planet Ark turns Dark
FSC timber certification – murky
Leadbeaters – back to court
CSIRO declines off to join EEG
VicForests plays hide and seek with FOI docs
Spin doctors outnumber journos
EG logger fined for malicious damage in NSW
Eden chipmill in decline
Harvey Norman’s hardwood floors – hard on wildlife
Cats compete with Eastern quolls
WA Labor and forest protection
Fed Libs plan to lock-up protesters
Poison baits avoided by dogs
$800 from kids talents
Plastic choking the oceans
Warming waters makes them toxic

Forest Update #35 – 27^th June 2012

VicForests caught out burning sawlogs!
EEG pursues VicForests through Freedom of Information.
Rio+20 outcome.
Online shop.
Correction to Quoll article.

Forest Update #34 – 05^th May 2012

Eden export chipmill makes a loss!
Gunns trading halt.
Vic Budget axes environment by $130M.
Vic Koalas left in the lurch.
Govt sluggish on recording species finds.
FOI for survey results.
Burnt quoll found after prescribed burn.
Govt still spoon feeds logging lobby groups – over quarter of a million.
Logging accountability – off the rails in Victoria.
Govt not playing by FOI laws.
EDO – Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act
Auto monthly donations – tax deductible
Leave a legacy in your will

Forest Update #33 – 25^th April 2012

Rare Potoroos – search and destroy
VicForests pays some of our legal costs
Supreme Court decision to be appealed
Gunns jilted
Aerial baiting plans stopped
Gillard plans to gut Federal Environment laws
NSW Coalition plans to log National Parks
Baillieu reviews green laws
Illegal logging – Australia walks away
Government Eco-cidal burns continue
Cow poo is bad for our drinking water
The global GE gum tree campaign
The true cost of corporate profit
The Climate Challenge ABC this Thursday 8:30pm
Legal seminar: Victoria’s flora and fauna – what Guarantee?
Play Tag in Harvey Norman stores

Forest Update #32 – 17^th March 2012

Forest Furnaces still in limbo – Still Urgent.
Leadbeaters Possum court case – not a straight loss.
Ninety additional coupes for East Gippsland.
Forests Forever 2012.

Forest Update #31 – 17^th February 2012

Sylvia Creek Supreme Court case – and other legal news
Green Turtles to Sue Government For Climate Change – this Saturday
Gunns finds a partner for their pulpmill
AUSTRALIAN native forest is being woodchipped to be burned in Japan.
US navy inspects Qld biofuel plant
Gippsland’s Gunns mill stops log deliveries
Eden woodchip mill biofuel pellet plant approved by Shire
Forests forever Ecology Camp
Burning forests back on the agenda?
MyEnvironment’s plea for help

Forest Update #30 – 2^nd February 2012

Baillieu regime – destroying the law to destroy the environment
Cobb Hill – Rainforest Site of National Significance – our next legal stoush!
VicForests still refusing to pay EEG’s legal costs
Please help us – http://www.givenow.com.au/environmenteastgippsland
Eden woodchip mill’s incinerator pellet factory loses legal challenge
Gillard’s carbon trickery
Alps grazing lobbyists put on VicForests’ board
Juggling Acts – and who administers them
Central Highland’s summer of action – Toolangi
Tasmania forest deal turning to rubble
Baillieu’s new top advisor sees red on greens
Pulp and paper industry to fall in 2012
Job on offer at The Wilderness Society
Fraudulent squandering of loggers’ exit packages uncovered
Prescribed burns – add to climate problems
Plans to stop illegal timber imports – effective?
UK company boycotts Tassie wood
Env. Minister Ryan Smith’s CV
Media bias (nnnho!) on climate stories
Aussies – environment half as important as economy
Time Magazine’s person of the year for 2011 -‘The protester’
Book into this year’s Forests Forever Ecology Camp at Easter
Click and submit a letter against the pellet factory
Learn about climate solutions – zero emissions – Melb Uni 6th Feb
Nominate your favourite species – Federal Govt wants new listings
Upcoming EDO events

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Forest Update #29 – 6^th December 2011

please tell the govt what you think about changes to planned burning of our forests.
the Durban round of climate talks – don’t let forests be left out again.
VicForests – ongoing illegal rainforest logging!
new laws on illegally logged timber – overseas!
legal opinion on proposed changes to the logging Code for threatened wildlife.
“Lean thinking”??
Logged forests – Fail to regrow
A plea to help the WA bushfire victims – rare cockatoos.

Forest Update #28 – 10^th November 2011

Govt twists Code to approve endangered wildlife destruction.
Logging now being shifted to agriculture minister.
Forestry Tasmania derails the Tassie agreement.
Forest carbon, cash and crime – sell the carbon and log it too.
Blitz burning – out of control
Keeping it in the family
Logging lobbyists letter.
Nippon woodchip company in slow-down mode.
DSE creates an old growth walk.
Tell Baillieu we want rare wildlife protected.
Send in your comments to the formal public consultation.
Join in the ‘Backwards March’ this Sunday.
Help keep pressure on Harvey Norman.
Facebookers – help the cause against woodchipping.
Climate Change Adaptation – have your say.
Five tips for lobbying your local pollie.

Forest Update #27 – 7^th October 2011

Harvey Norman actions across the country – this Saturday.
Leadbeaters possum to have its day in court – Feb 6th.
Central Highlands has only 1% old growth remaining.
Nippon’s share price tumbles.
VicForests’ commissions a counter report – then trips on its own lies.
Reflex paper finally stripped of dodgy eco-label.
Logging unions shuns
East Gippy biomass spruiker exposed
Alps grazing ‘trails’ – Baillieu keeps digging downwards.
Logging machinery destroyed in mysterious fire in central Gippsland.
Local councils jack-up over road damage by trucks.
Another year – another dead loss for VicForests.
New dolphin species discovered in the Gippsland Lakes.
World Banks Forest Advisor – forests more valuable than as logs.
Quolls get a reprieve – Feds step in on poison bait plans.
Kmart caught selling rainforest destruction
Blitz burn fire management gets a rewrite – have your say
Forest photography exhibition – SE Australia’s best.
World logging takes new direction – from paper to power supply.

Forest Update #26 – 5^th September 2011

Important announcement regarding Forests and the Law workshop
Nat Threatened species day – endangered Quolls to be poisoned
Local environment group issues writ for injunction on logging
Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act planned for emasculation
In the next Potoroo Review

Forest Update #25 – 15^th July 2011

Biomass burning knocked out by new carbon price scheme
Biodiversity gets $1 billion – yes Billion
CSIRO – Forests are key carbon soaks
Gunns Triabunna mill in Tassie sold for tourism
Gunns sells off Green Triangle assets
Aust Paper looks at Green Triangle pine as feed stock
Nippon Paper puts up its prices
The Last Stand and Markets for Change
PaperlinX and Aust Envelopes goes under
Green School comes to Melbourne
Nippon loses battle against ‘greenie’

Forest Update #24 – 24^th June 2011

Urgent crunch time for climate policy – send an email to ministers.
Send a mini-rocket to those who approved the wood pellet plant.
VicForests caught exporting whole logs to China – and give multiple choice excuses.
Tassie deal signed.
Triabunna mill sold to logging interests.
Planet Ark helps the Planet Rapers.
Amazon set for a mega plunder
Last minute end of FY reminder

Forest Update #23 – 5^th June 2011